Psalms 64:1
Praise becomes you, O God, in Sion; and to you shall the vow be performed. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
In Context
2Hear my prayer; to you all flesh shall come. 1
Cross References
Psalms 27:7The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in him, and I am helped: my flesh has revived, and willingly will I + 27:7 Or, confess to him. give praise to him. 1
Psalms 34:4Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded: let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame. 1
Psalms 56:2I will cry to God most high; the God who has benefited me. Pause. 1
Psalms 140:1O Lord, I have cried to you; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to you. 1
Psalms 143:1Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war. 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 64:1
This whole psalm has reference to David's enemies, persecutors, and slanderers; many such there were, and a great deal of trouble they gave him, almost all his days, so that we need not guess at any particular occasion of penning this psalm. I. He prays to God to preserve him from their malicious designs against him, ver. 1, 2 . II. He gives a very bad character of them, as men marked for ruin by their own wickedness, ver. 3-6 . III. By the spirit of prophecy he foretels their destruction, which would redound to… Read the whole commentary →